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India Digest: India Launches Scientific Expedition to South Pole

Here is a roundup of news from Indian newspapers, news wires and Web sites on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. The Wall Street Journal has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

India Launches Scientific Expedition to South Pole: The head of India’s National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Rasik Ravindra, will lead a team of eight scientists on the journey, departing next week from an Indian research base. (Source: BBC News)

‘China’s growth is India’s Opportunity’: A senior Chinese leader on Monday assured India that China’s growth was not a threat but an opportunity for India and the same held true with regard to India’s rise. (Source: The Times of India)

Chidambaram Says J&K Interlocutors Have had Impact: Notwithstanding the criticism they have attracted over some of their public comments, Union Home Minister P Chidambarm Monday backed the efforts being made by the government-appointed interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir and said they had been successful in changing the discourse of the debate in the state. (Source: Indian Express)

Complaint filed in court against Geelani, Arundhati: A complaint was today filed in a Delhi court seeking prosecution of hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer Arundhati Roy on the charge of sedition for their alleged anti-India statements. (Source: Press Trust of India)

Expert Panel to Study China Model to Improve IITs: Expert Panel to Study China Model: A panel of experts formed by HRD minister Kapil Sibal to draw up a blueprint for improving the quality of teaching and research at the Indian Institutes of Technology will leave for China on Tuesday. The team will take a close look at the success of Chinese institutes in science, engineering and research. (Source: Hindustan Times)

Army to Set up Court of Inquiry in Adarsh Society Scam: The Defence Ministry is awaiting a report from the Navy on Mumbai’s Adarsh Housing Society, even as the Army is planning to order a court of inquiry into land ownership, membership and allotments. Defence Minister A.K. Antony had asked the Army and the Directorate of Estates, besides the Navy, to probe the issue. (Source: The Hindu)

No Pact Likely on US Commercial Satellite Launch by ISRO: With the US still in the process of finalising export reforms on commercial satellites by restructuring the US Munitions List on spacecraft, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is not expecting to see a much anticipated Commercial Satellites Launch Agreement (CSLA) inked during the visit of US President Barack Obama later this week. (Source: Indian Express)